The Mozart concert was lovely even though the "candlelight" was electric in nature. Chris was slightly miffed that the advertised Soprano's "Queen of the Night" from The Magic Flute, was not forthcoming, but you can't have everything!Waiting for the big storm to hit tonight , Chicken all battened down, working all tomorrow too.
I was calculating this morning of how many work Christmas nights out I have been to over the years? Well at least 28 of them I think, and they have all been pretty dire affairs; bad food, noisy, drunken and expensive- yep last night's Abba night (complete with tribute band- and I use the word band rather loosely), was no exception. Half of the ITU lot dressed up in an assortment of pseudo-original Abba garb,and got very drunk very quickly. The other half, just got drunk very quickly! Thank god I found Hazel, who is a tall willowy snob; she stated loudly from the start t
hat she "didn't do fancy dress", and certainly "didn't do party hats." So we sat together and watched the fun. To be fair the lamb was lovely (even if the camp aged and grossly harassed
, and several fists were flying. The spinal nurses were caught in the crossfire, and I will always remember my friend Ruth yelling "Save Lewis!! Save Lewis", as our weedy Social worker got sandwiched between two battling thugs crying out like Charles Hawtrey "stop it! stop it this is all rather silly!!"
The time has come..... Yes next week I start weight watchers! Long walks on the beach and lots of gardening has not helped my bulging waistline and middle aged spread and I am now 15 stone 6! with a BMI of 30! Yes Shelley Winters eat your heart out. I miss years of Badminton with Mike Kilner ( and so does my size 34 pants!) and I do miss being able to tie my own shoelaces without puffing!, so I have bitten the bullet and sorted my first meeting. I hope to feel the benefit, especially as my creaking back still occasionally gives me gyp! Nu has given me some insentive as she goes to "fat club" regulary.and looks fab!......off now to have a diet coke.
Janet and Ann have taken part in the Christmas Tree festival (and I use the term loosely),in Prestatyn's parish church. Basically you pay £2.50 to look at an array of decorated trees and then vote for your favourite. The winning entry gets 250 quid! which is a pretty fair prize, so dutifully I went today to cast my vote. I was glad to have bumped into Judy who I dragged along with me, as I would have felt like a pervert wandering around by myself. An odd group of little Britain greyhairs showed us around while 10 little Bonnie Langfords " performed folk songs, to their showbiz moms and 20 drooling OAPs. The whole thing was surreal beyond anything Matt Lucas could dream up. By tree 20 we were giggling like school girls and made a sudden exit before we were kicked out.
Glorious morning on the beach. The dogs ran for miles, with 2 red setters they met. Poor Maddie with her 3 inch legs was always last, but I gave her 9/10 for effort.
many to New Jersey disastrous 1937 flight would have been one I could have lived without. Interestingly two thirds of the passengers actually survived the terrible explosion!
Very Tired as just finished two 12 hour shifts. Today did a good job ! A withdrawl of treatment of a elderly man with a vunerable , aging family, who were terrified and overfaced with the complexities of a modern ITU. It is the part of nursing I know I am good at. The family (a very Welsh brother and sister in their 80's) were dignified and grateful for a more mature and patient nurse to be their advocate and I spent all day preparing them for the inevitable, and supporting them afterwards.Heard from the Conway Bee Keepers today too and start the bee keepers course tomorrow night!......